Holder for lamp-shades.



No. 850,579. PATENTED APR. 16, 1907.

W. 0. HOLT & R. L. POSTER. HOLDER FOR LAMP SHADES.

APPLIOAI IOH FILED JANJI, 1907.

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WALTER O. IIOLT AND RALPH LEETE FOSTER, OF PROVIDENCE, RIIODE ISLAND, ASSIGNORS TO LIVERMORE &

IDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ACORPORATION OF ItI-IODE ISLAND.

HOLDE'R FOR LAMP-SHADES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' PatentedApril 16, 1907.

Application filed January 11, 1907. Serial No. 351,816.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WALTER O. HOLT and RALPH Lnnrn FosrnR, citizens of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Holders for Lamp-Shades, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Like reference-letters indicate like parts.

Figure 1 is a view in elevation of an electric lamp and globe, a lamp-shade, and our improved shadeholder, securing the shade in position upon the lamp. Fig. 2 is a perspective view, on an enlarged scale, of the improved shade-holder constituting our invention. same scale, showing said shade-holder in another position. Figs. 4 to 9, inclusive, illustrate-the use of said shade-holder upon various kinds of lamps and in various positions.

Our invention relates to holders for lampshades, and consists of the novel construction and combination of the several portions thereof, as hereinafter described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

Our improved shade-holder is made of wire, preferably tempered and bent, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. At the center of a piece of wire it is bent into a nearly-closed loop a, which is spatulate in form, with its outer portion flaring outwardly. The two wires at the inner portion of the loop a are bent at 1) approximately two hundred and seventy degrees, and extend substantially parallel with each other to a position close to said spatulate end, and are located longitudinally about midway between the two sides of the loop c. There is thus formed a hook a I). Just beyond the place where said two wires approach nearest to the spatulate bend a each wire is bent back upon itself about two hundred and seventy degrees to form a loop or bend c. The two loops 1) and 0 thus constitute a second hook. The two wires are then brought together and twisted, as at d, or otherwise fastened together, to form a rigid stem. Then the wires separate at a wide angle, one from the other, and are curved into two arms or branches 6 6. Each arm a terminates in a double hook m a, and its extreme end or tip is bent outwardly, as shown at 0.

Fig. 3 is also a perspective view, on the desired angle by means The two hooks a c and b c are brought so nearly to contact at f and g as to offer frictional engagement with the edge of a lampshade or of a globe when such edge is inserted between them. The hook I) c is brought nearlyto contact with the two-stranded stem below d, as at h, so that there is offered a frictional engagement with the edge of a lamp shade or of a globe when the same is inserted between them. The two hooks a b and b c open'in opposite directions, as shown in Figs. 2 and 8. The two hooks m and n are in contact with each other at a and '0.

In the drawings, A re resents a lamp-shade, consisting of a square s eet of paper or pasteboard or an oblong sheet thereof with angular bends or of any desired shape.

13 is an electric wire.

C is a gas-fixture.

D is a gas-bracket.

E is an Argand burner.

F is an electric-lamp stand.

G is the globe of an electric incandescent light.

H is the globe of a gas-light.

I is the porcelain shade of an Argand burner.

J is the porcelain shade of an electric lamp. The amp-shade is fastened by the shade-holder and is supported thereby upon a globe, as shown.

As illustrated in the drawings, a lampshade may beheld in any desired position and extend in any desired direction or at any of our improved shade-holder. Either one of the two hooks a b or b 0 can be used to engage the lamp shade or the globe, as preferred, and either one of the two hooks m or n can be used to engage the globe or lamp-shade. To use the hook it b, the lamp shade or globe is inserted at 8. To use the hook I) c, the lamp shade or globe is inserted at t. To use the hook m, the lamp shade or globe is inserted at a. To use the hook it, the lamp shade or globe is inserted ate. By this diversity ofuse the shadeholder can be so adjusted as to hold the lampshade in relation to the globe in either of the ways indicated by the drawings and also in other desired positions.

We claim as a novel and useful invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent" 1. The improved holder for lamp-shades KNIGHT OQMPANY, OF PROVI- herein described, consisting of a single piece of tempered wire bent at its center to form two strands; two hooks each made of said two strands and opening in opposite directions; a stem composed of a twist of said two strands; two single strands each bent into two divergent arms; and two hooks at the end of each arm lying in one plane and opening in opposite directions.

2. The improved holder for lamp-shades herein described, consisting of a single piece of tempered wire, having the twostranded hooks a b and be oppositely directed and bent to form cooperating gripping-surfaces f and g; the rigid stem portion d; the two singlestranded arms e, e; and the two oppositelydirected hooks m and n in one plane at the end of each arm 6.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

WALTER O. HOLT. RALPH LEETE FOSTER.

' Witnesses:

Lnwrs E. WOODWARD, HOWARD A. LAMPREY. 

